Many KDE Developers will converge the week of March 22-28 in Hannover, Germany for CeBIT (English). CeBIT is Europe's largest computer trade show with over 8,000 companies representing 60 countries in attendance. Torsten Rahn wrote in with details of what's
going on there with KDE:"The KDE Project will be presenting a snapshot of the upcoming KDE 2.2
release at CeBIT 2001 in Hannover, Germany. There will be a permanent
demo point at the SuSE booth (Hall 3/E45) and live presentations on
the SuSE video wall. On Saturday, KDevelop developer Ralf Nolden will have a talk about KDevelop 1.4 at the SuSE booth. In addition, Ralf Nolden and Martin Konold will give separate KDE-related talks on Saturday at the Rheinland-Pfalz-Stand (Hall 16/B43). On Sunday, KDE developer Chris Schläger will give a presentation about the upcoming KDE 2.2
release at the SuSE booth. Other developers will be present as well." Update: 03/22 22:35 AM by N: A schedule for the KDE presentations is available.

We will be implementing banishment soon. Our hand has been more or less forced on this issue as we've been under quite some attack from script kiddies. Seems the dot getting too popular for some people.

I'm proud of my sexuality too. So I decided to have the family over and demonstrate in the middle of dinner. Alas I was not fortunate enough to have been born of two gay parents. I'm pretty sure one of my three parents is an alien from another planet. Anyway there were no aliens there that night and all I seem to remember from my abduction is the alien anal probes with metal objects... so I had my brother in the mashed potatos with a hand full of kitchen utensils and everyone was screaming...

After I got out of jail I was going to try crossing an elephant, alligator and ostrich, you know, one of each sex, in the hopes of getting a sexy hairless green scaley alien looking thing... then I read from a credible source that over half of all core KDE developers are in fact aliens from other planets. Well that explains those amazing development cycles!

See you guys at CeBIT. I'll be the guy with the cuisinart in my pocket and the satellite dish on my head. Slip me a tentical and you can phone home.

Well, of course, more than half the kde core delopers are gay. Who wouldn't be happy to work on such a great project as KDE!! And with women.kde.org in place, their girlfriends and wifes are now gay too, since they can enjoy participating in one of the largest Open Source Projects!

The sick thing is that he probebly isn't a Troll. there are in my experience 2 distinkt categories of Gays.

One set just dose what they like with no nead to talk about it onless you ask a direct question.

The other set isn't so much interested in sex with likeminded people but rather the shocked reactions of those who disaprove. These are the ones who shout that they are "Gay and proud of it" or march in parades at Disney or apear on talkshows to discuss who they sleapt with.

To add some perspective. How many straight people tell you who they sleapt with if you don't ask? How many hesitate to tell you when you do?

argh i hate kde2.1 , i installed debain packages , then it starts , then after a reboot it did not start 3 days , then it started again , and now its fucked up again , arghhh , now that i have the nvidia 9-767 drivers installed with the render extension :((((

Try running KDE without anti-aliasing on (control panel->Look and Feel->Styles). This has been notorious lately for causing KDE problems. Once you get KDE up and running without AA fonts, then go for the AA fonts.

That other problem you mentioned I'm not so sure of. Perhaps you have some stray process or temp files laying around.

You should also mention what distribution of Debian you're running (stable, testing, unstable). For much better support, subscribe to the debian-kde list at http://lists.debian.org.

you kde people are incapable of creating system administration tools and some network administration tools, your KDE is at the mercy of Gnome's great applications like DrakConf or Linuxconf. you call your KDE a desktop environment, actually it is just a window manager with an integrated browser...

Hmm, I use SuSE 7.1 and configure my Linux with KControl and YaST2. KControl (including SuSE-modules) uses KDE, YaST2 uses QT.
If you don't want to use GTF applications, please consider using an other distribution.

Yeah, you will show that KDE is not self dependent for administration and not meant for administrator s. only it is meant for dumb ex-windows users. A Unix Desktop Environment is dependent on other desktop's utilities! what a shame!

It's funny that you would claim that kde is for "dumb ex-windows users" because it doesn't have many gui sysadmin tools, while so many sysadmins scoff at using such tools. They say gui tools are for dumb ex-winnt users. I don't agree, but I do find it a bit ironic.

Yes, I'm currently experiencing this very problem right now. I downloaded and installed Mandrake 8.0 beta and AA fonts make Konsole unusable. Web pages in Konqy look great! I'm sure this will be resolved soon enough.

Yeah, that one is a bug in XFree86. And it's about not using Fixed Fonts, not really matter if it's AA or not. You can work around it by setting QT_FT=0 (or whatever that var is called) before running konsole. I think there is also a patch for Qt to work around the bug.

Well, it works for me, I played with the XftConfig-or-something-like-that file, and imported all my windows and other fonts I found laying around on the internet. Also I have sub-pixel rendering turned on. In fact everything is clear, only slight fuzziness on the vertical anti-aliasing effects (none at all horizontally, as expected with sub-pixel rendering) and the total effect is nothing short of incredible. With better fonts, control over fixed fonts (at least enough control to get Konsole working correctly) and sub-pixel rendering on, there is no reason not to anti-alias every single charecter and many reasons to do so! Anyway, I'm not going back. Certainly I'm suffering no headaches. I only wonder how I remained so pain-free before I switched!

If you need more specifics about what changes I made, ask and I'll do the research and backtrack.

The free-type library could stand to do a better job with sub-pixel positioning and kerning in general, however. This is a very slight complaint and you have to know what you are looking for to even notice it. And of course it could easily be the font and not the renderer. Also I get the impression (though it may be wrong) that free-type does not hint using sub-pixel boundaries, only full pixel boundaries, but I may very well be wrong there, haven't really put the charecters "under the microscope" and checked to see. It seems anyway that it makes occasional hinter mistakes (diagonal lines are softer than they should be), which could be anything of course, the hinter, the font, or even some kind of patent problem preventing them from implementing it correctly (I seem to remember reading about that on their web site). BeOS's renderer does a slightly better job on pure anti-aliased fonts, but it can't sub-pixel render at all, so in fact freetype beats it cleanly there.

My point is only that despite the incredible improvements made, it is possible to get even more out of the hardware I have, which, in this case, is a 1024x768 TFT.